Lab Spaces has some great topic ideas sometimes. This week’s (month’s?) is “Things I wish I knew when…”. And I would like to tell you about the thing I did end up knowing. I have passed it on to successive generations, and they tell me that verily, it is the word of truth, righteousness, and […]
The ever perspicacious Drugmonkey has let the world know that CPDD, the College on the Problems of Drug Dependence, has started a BLOG! It will be written by CPDD members and invited writers, and they’ve already got some great stuff up about the politics of drug addiction research. Sci is totally excited that more drug […]
Sci deeply considered titling this post “Becoming Lindsay Lohan: Cocaine Escalation in Rats”. But then I thought…nah…too much. 🙂 Anyway, a post over at Drugmonkey yesterday got Sci to thinking about drug self-administration in rats, and more particularly, HOW we use it to model cocaine addiction in humans. Because, like other models, drug self-administration in […]
Some of you may remember that Sci has recently graduated and become a post-doc! She’s very pleased with her new surroundings, but has a question for the masses: how comfy should one make one’s office space? See, Sci spends a lot of time in the office. Right now, not TOO much, but come grant deadline […]
So we are now headed off to a new, shiny server which will hopefully make us all happy and responsive again! And what better way to start it off than with a paper that BLOWS MY MIND?!?! I’ll admit that Ed actually blogged it before me (though I had intended to blog it for a […]
Well, it looks like the move to a new server is ALMOST complete (if you can see this, we’ve thrown the switch!). Sci’s on another newish blog setup, and she thinks she’s got it almost as shiny as the old. But there is one thing totally awesome. Over there on the sidebar to the right, […]
As you all may have head from the other peeps around here at Scientopia, we are suffering some server issues. 🙁 Hopefully this shall be worked out soon, but until then, we are having to disable comments. Sci loves her readers and this breaks her soft little heart, but hopefully we shall be back at […]
I’m sure everyone here has heard of self-inflicted harm, or self-injurious behavior. The common word for it is “cutting”, and professionals and parents often worry about its presence in adolescent populations. But the population in which self-injurious behavior is most prevalent is actually in patients (adult or adolescent) with borderline personality disorder. Borderline personality disorder […]
The things I miss when I go away… Abel Pharmboy and his awesome pharmacology blog Terra Sigillata have MOVED to an awesome new spot at Chemical and Engineering News, to a blog which will be hosted by C&EN, the newsletter of the American Chemical Society. Sci is a proud member of ACS, and is totally […]
You all may remember when a certain political candidate made a comment concerning fruit fly research. It seemed like half the world reacted with “yeah, fruit fly research is dumb! Let’s cure cancer!” while the other half went “hey, I think that’s probably important…” and tried to come up with examples. And while we’ve obviously […]